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A ripple of laughter swept over Miss Palliser's resolute face; but she said not a word. 'Half a New Testament the margins shamefully scribbled over, pursued Miss Pillby, with implacable monotony. 'Three Brazil nuts. A piece of slate-pencil. The photograph of a little boy 'My brother, cried Ida hastily.
'Don't talk nonsense, child; it's too late in the year for thunder. We shall have the equinoctial gales soon, I dare say. 'No doubt, replied Miss Pillby, who had heard about the equinox and its carryings on all her life without having arrived at any clear idea of its nature and properties. 'We shall have it very equinoctial before the end of the month, I've no doubt.
Miss Pillby, perusing those figures within her view, as she stood in the back row of the school seats, perceived a stranger a stranger of elegant and pleasing appearance, who was evidently casting stolen glances at the lambs of the Mauleverer fold. Nor was Miss Pillby's keen eye slow to discover for which lamb those ardent looks were intended.
'I have never shrunk from my duty, however painful it might be, Sam! she said, and left the youth impressed by the idea of her virtues. In the duskiness of the October dawn Miss Pillby stole stealthily down by back stairs and obscure passages to the boot-room, where she found Sam hard at work with brushes and blacking, by the light of a tallow candle, in an atmosphere flavoured with coals.
It was only one kiss, yer know, miss, but he made it last as long as he could. The foreigner looked the other way. 'Shameful creatures, both of them! exclaimed Miss Pillby. 'There's your sixpence, Sam, and don't say a word to anybody about what you've seen, till I tell you. I may want you to repeat it all to Miss Pew. If I do, I'll give you another sixpence.
To teach two classes, each consisting of from fifteen to twenty girls, was in itself no trifling labour. But besides this Ida had to give music lessons to that lowest class which she had ceased to instruct in English and French, and whose studies were now conducted by Miss Pillby.
'Were you ever a little thing, Pillby? asked Miss Rylance with superb disdain, the present Pillby being long and gaunt. And the group of listeners laughed, with that frank laughter of school girls keenly alive to the ridiculous in other people.
And without any word of praise or thanks from her principal, Miss Pillby retired: yet she knew in her heart that for this piece of ill news Miss Pew was not ungrateful.
'Some London shopman, no doubt, by his bad manners. She stole a look at Ida, who flushed ever so slightly at hearing Brian Wendover thus maligned. Fraeulein Wolf slept in the room occupied by Miss Pillby and Miss Motley three narrow iron bedsteads in a particularly inconvenient room, always devoted to governesses, and supposed to be a temple of learning.
Miss Pillby, who had flattered and toadied every well-to-do pupil, and laboured desperately to wind herself into the affections of Bessie Wendover, that warm-hearted young person seeming particularly accessible to flattery, felt herself absolutely injured by the kindness that had been lavished upon Ida.
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